Principal Developer Advocate

Job Description

Do you love getting hands-on with software and sharing your enthusiasm for cloud computing with the wider tech community Come join the Developer Relations team at AWS! Our creative, experienced, and energetic organization is responsible for helping to drive the development and adoption of AWS services. In this role, you ll combine your technical skills, passion, and creativity to generate grass-roots attention and support for AWS among key industry innovators and technologists in India, as well as globally.Ideally, you re someone who comes from a software and/or infrastructure background, but you love to be on stage guiding the broader industry towards technologies that you believe in. You have immediate credibility with Startups, Developers, Architects, IT Managers and/or CIOs. You love to share your passion with others and you exhibit strong judgment in selecting strategic opportunities to do so.Key Capabilities: As a Builder, you will dive deep to deliver audience-focused technical presentations, and to curate and build hands-on technical content. Youll keep your technical skills updated constantly, always maintaining a baseline understanding of the latest core AWS services, and then adding breadth and depth as required by your passions and by your audiences needs. As a Strategist, youll keep the big picture in mind and always look for opportunities to maximize customer value, constantly driving efficiencies on processes and mechanisms. As a Teacher, youll provide technical guidance for Builders to be successful with the cloud, simplifying complex topics and tailoring your message to the needs of your audience. As an Ambassador, youll build long-term relationships with Builders and their communities, collecting insights to help shape AWSs go-to-market strategy, programs, and products. Youll also identify and develop the profiles of external AWS advocates, helping to amplify voices in the community. As an Influencer, youll use your unique personality and authentic content to help attract Builders to AWS, keeping them engaged and inspired to Build.Responsibilities: Gaining industry recognition and credibility as a regular attendee and speaker at AWS and third party technology conferences, shows, and press events. Curating, developing and delivering compelling presentations, sample solutions, and discussions to help drive awareness and adoption of AWS services. Collaborating with internal teams to define program initiatives for technical audiences, market positioning, gathering customer feedback, and nurturing and growing technical communities. Creating and maintaining relevant content (demos, videos, blogs, screencasts, books, and other mediums), covering AWS services along with emerging technologies and industry developments. Maintaining a strong and credible presence in social media channels relevant to technical audiences. Working with your worldwide counterparts to share best practices and help build a best-in-the-industry developer relations organization. Continuing to identify leads for potential partnerships and customer opportunities., Significant experience working in a technology advocate or technical executive role. Strong knowledge and experience with cloud computing infrastructure, application development platforms, and popular programming languages Outstanding public speaking, content creation, and presentation skills (in person and online), and experience working with technical communities. Willingness to travel and ability to work autonomously. Able to work in a diverse team. Superior oral and written communication skills in English.NOTE: Please ensure your CV includes links to content youve created (videos of talks, blog posts, demo code, etc) as well as details of any developer community activities. Significant experience (8-10 yrs) in IT Infrastructure and/or software development, with special emphasis in areas including Databases, Application Services, Big Data, Containers, Serverless Applications, Machine Learning, Open Source Solutions, Front-end development, and/ or distributed computing. Practical familiarity with cloud computing platforms, architecture work, systems or application design, development or operations. Existing knowledge of the AWS platform is a great bonus. Working knowledge and experience with social / online marketing coupled with prior experience in product definition, bring-to-market strategies and/ or setting an industry standard. A history of successful speaking engagements, online content creation, industry influence, and/or recognition in technology publications. Success in nurturing, engaging with, and growing large technical communities.Amazon is an Equal Opportunity Employer Minority / Women / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age

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front endonline content creationopen sourcecloud computingcustomer valueonline marketingmachine learningonline contentsocial mediatechnical skillsbig datapublic speaking